An insight from Rajaraman's lecture

My interaction with Prof. Rajaraman, father of computer education in India:

We know Prof. Rajaraman from our undergraduate as we had studied his books like "COMPUTER ORIENTED NUMERICAL METHODS" and "FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS". Many people know him for his books and few people know him for his research and teaching. He is presently Honorary Professor, at IISc in SERC department.

He delivered a distinguished lecture in Infosys campus, Bangalore and I had a chance to listen to his lecture and interact with him. His talk was about his research journey and findings out of it. He started with how he got interested into research and then described how he tackled different research problems in his life both at academia and industry. We were in the analog computers world for 30 minutes during his lecture.

He described about two kinds of scientists: First kind is of digging deeper into the problem and works years together till he finds a perk. Other kind of people is jumping to other fields after finding some good solutions in the present field.

NRN was his student in IITK and people questioned him about the quality of engineering education in India. NRN also complained regarding the quality of people in campus recruitment from engineering colleges. Professor mentioned that the problem is with the teachers, as they are not quite capable in generating interest for the students to learn the things rather than marks. Students are giving importance to marks rather than learning basic things. Regarding industry and academia partnership, both IITs and industry come forward for mutual benefit.

The main outcomes of the talk are kind of research we need to do and relation of real world problem to mathematics and way of solving them.

I had this kind of great feeling to meet authors eariler also when I met Andrew S Tanenbaum (Author of Computer Networks) in IITD (2003) and John Hopcroft (Author of "Data Structures and Algorithms" , "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" and "The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms") in Infosys campus BANGALORE (2009).

P.S: Sharing thoughts on meeting great researchers and authors

Kotha Bangaru Lokam

My views on Kotha Bangaru Lokam (Telugu movie):
I like this decent movie with nice college scenes, parents relation and message to youth. Here are few more specific points from the movie.

College life:I like the explanation of physics lecturer about the 3 phases in life:Teenage: 13-19: Much enthusiasm in this age group and think we can get everything in the world. Need to enjoy and think twice to justiy our thoughts; As guys will be too crazy in this age. Youth: Determination to achieve some thing and settle well. Middle age (30+): Compromise and settle with what ever we get in life.

When I saw the movie, I recollected my college life in Nalanda Residential Junior College, Vijayawada. We used to study a lot and weeknds fun and very deterministic to achievean engineering seat in good college. Even though I have not done, some memorable things from my frens are: going out to movies midnight;Teasing the warden and prinicpal. Only difference is that we don't have any disturbance of the gals :) as ours is boys residential college.

Parents love: The parents relation and love towards the son is effectively picturised in this movie. I like the father role played by Prakash Raj. In few scenes are heart touching. No more words to express the father effection.

Unforgettable scene: When mother tells to his son that he is there for her when father died is heart touching.

P.S: Movie review with personal high lights

Wanna buy a platinum Ring in Bangalore

For the first time, I wish to purchase a platinum ring. For this, I searched a lot of shops in Bangalore, Chennai and Vijayawada. My recommendation is Malabar Gold, which has two shops in Jaya Nagar and Dickenson Road (near Sivaji Nagar - Commercial street). This decision is based on the wide range of variety of ready made rings in the required size. We can even order the design with required size butit takes at least 1-3 months. The charages are very much different when compared to gold rings. Each gm of platinum costs app. 2700. This does not vary daily as gold varies but each shop will have different rates within range of 300 rupees. Many shops sell the platinum ring as item cost and will inform the split up only if we force them to do so. Generally diamonds add value to the platinum ornaments. These diamonds price depends on size and carrot.

I visited Pratibha jewellery (Richmond circle), Prince Jewellery(Jaya Nagar), Reliance Jewellery (Jaya nagar), Bhima Jewellery (2 branchs - M.G.Road and JayaNagar) where choice is less and prices are also too high compared to Malabar gold. There is no platinum collection in Tata showrooms, Kirtilals jewellery (Richmond circle), Chemmanur jewels (k.R.Market).Be aware that there is white gold which looks like platinum where each gm costs 1300, while the normal gold costs Rs.1600 in 2010. I wish to share this experience with you so that you can save time while purchasing platinum ornaments in Bangalore. Please note that it is independent review and sharing of experience and i don’t have any connection with Malabar Gold.

Have a nice time shopping.

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